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GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor Applet Ported to XFCE4

I am a refugee from GNOME 2 like I assume a fair few of the readers here are, ending up on XFCE4 after some positive experiences early on and the great Linus’ recommendation. One hole I haven’t managed to fill until now is a proper network bandwidth graph in the panel (I used NetMeter for many years under Windows and then Hardware Monitor) – so after finally getting some C and C++ progression, I have managed to port the Hardware Monitor applet to XFCE4! It has reached Works For Me™ status for a week now:

The screenshot is proof of the applet running in XFCE4 along with showing the applet – two Separators delimit the graph on the right, with the red line tracking upload and the green download (the numbers on the far right are from the separate Network Monitor applet).